Katherine/Katie had left Dallas seventeen years ago . She worked for the San Francisco Blaze baseball team. Doug was the general manager. Tom was the manager of the team and from Texas also. Tom was the one who had broken Katie’s heart. Katherine held the title of Senior vice president of communications for the Blaze team. Tom felt Katie had walked away from him seventeen years ago without a goodbye. John and Katie had fallen in love in high school. Katie’s family had money John’s didn’t. Katie and John had been mislead about a fake rape accusation. So each believes the other just walked away. The families felt that Tom and Katie should follow their own dreams, that they were too young to be so serious. Now Katherine refuses to talk to Tom about anything except Blaze business especially not about the past. But neither has found a love like they had with each other, the attraction was also still there as well as feelings.

I liked this story a lot. It made me mad the families were willing to cause both Tom and Katie so much pain and caused them to break up. I do think there were a few too many subplots going on but did get past them to finish this story. I loved the characters especially John and Katie and all they go through. I recommend.

I received an ARC of this story for an honest review

Every now and then, one of these turns out to be a good read.

This one has lots of humor, heat, and an interesting plot. The H has a fear, not of commitment, but of love itself. His parents loved each other a lot, and when his mother was killed, his father fell apart. Scarred him, I would say for life, but since he's with the h at the end, it just required the right person to screw with his head. The h had a different approach - she wanted what her parents had. And she was sure she wasn't going to get it with him. They were brought together because she dated a homeless grifter who stole her mother's engagement ring (a large, badly flawed diamond), he posted bond on the loser for an unrelated arrest, and he wanted to catch the douchebag as much as she wanted to kick the douchebag's ass. Along the way, there was a lot of sexual attraction, sarcasm, wise-cracking, etc.

I'd hunt down the brother's book but it's by a different author. Not sure I want to bother.

Kelly Maxwell and Matt Scanlon met a few months before they had to work together.  It did not go well, and now they are basically enemies.  His best friend is dating her sister, so their paths cross even without work.

Kelly is still mad at the confrontation they had when they first met.  He is hurting from something in his past he does not want to share with anyone.  Now, he has been traded and works for the same MLB team she does.  When she asks him to do interviews, he always refuses.

Matt has a had a rough year and is trying to make it better.  Meeting Kelly actually woke him up and made him see the errors he was making.  Now, he is working hard to be the best catcher in the league.  

The attraction between them is obvious.  The room literally sizzles with the sparks that fly around them.  Kelly hates that she is attracted to him.  She has a past full of pain as well.  Can they find that a friendship of honesty works for them and move on?

I was impressed with the writing and how these sensitive subjects were handled.  I loved the honesty and heat between the leading characters. This is book # 2 in Feeling the Heat series.  A must read for lovers of sports.  I give this book a 4/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

My only complaints are that it took half of the book for the truth about their break up to come up, and that they hadn't talked up about their past for the two years they've worked together. Other than that, it was a pretty good second chance romance and Tom was one of the sweetest guys! Can be read as a standalone even though its the fifth book of the series. 

― Alison Packard, The Winning Season

(Feeling The Heat, Book # 2)